Client having problem with rebill-cronjob (exits after 4/5 rebills)

[dennis00]

A client of mine is having problems with his rebill-cronjob. The billing cronjob exits after (about) 30 seconds and most of the time 4 or 5 rebills.

This is the message sent by crond:

Looking up www.paid-content-website.com
www.paid-content-website.com
Making HTTP connection to www.paid-content-website.com
Sending HTTP request.
HTTP request sent; waiting for response.
Alert!: Unexpected network read error; connection aborted.
Can't Access `http://www.paid-content-website.com...flow_rebill.php'
Alert!: Unable to access document.

lynx: Can't access startfile

I have set max_execution_time to 300 (instead of 30 seconds) for all these php.ini's on my cPanel server and it's given correctly in phpinfo.php;

/var/cpanel/version/php.ini-2
/etc/php.ini
/usr/lib/php.ini
/usr/local/lib/php.ini
/usr/local/lib/php.ini.new
/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/etc/php.ini
/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/lib/php.ini
/home/cpins/installd/buildapache/php-4.3.9/pear/tests/php.ini
/home/cpins/installd/buildapache/php-4.3.9/php.ini-recommended
/home/cpins/installd/buildapache/php-4.3.9/php.ini-dist
/home/cpapachebuild/buildapache/php-4.3.8/pear/tests/php.ini
/home/cpapachebuild/buildapache/php-4.3.8/php.ini-recommended
/home/cpapachebuild/buildapache/php-4.3.8/php.ini-dist

Questions
Would using /usr/bin/php instead of /usr/bin/lynx make any difference?
How can I let the lynx output be sent to my e-mail adress?
Is there any problem with lynx maybe? It automaticly exists after xxx seconds?
I am running APF Firewall, is that a problem?
Is Apache exiting running the php-file or is lynx exiting?

Any advise is welcome!

 

[dennis00]

Anybody?

cPanel Support responded: "We don't support 3rdparty software". Actually it's only a php-script, no actual software. But they are not willing to help.

Ahy advise is welcome.

 

[dgbaker]

The error actually states whats going on.

Alert!: Unexpected network read error; connection aborted.
Can't Access `http://www.paid-content-website.com...flow_rebill.php'

It cannot access that site.

I just noticed, is that the real name for the domain call? www.paid-content-website.com ??

That domain is not registered. [ERROR: The parent servers say that the domain paid-content-website.com does not exist.]

 

[dennis00]

I'd rather keep the identity of this domain secret.

This is a paid-content website, and the owner wants to stay anonymous.

I can assure u, the domain is working perfectly and no DNS-settings are wrong.

 

[dgbaker]

Wasn't sure that's why I asked.

It is possible depending on the frequency of the cronjob makeing the request that it in itself is causing the issue. For example if you mod_dosevasive loaded with Apache and you hit your site too repeadly you can essentially block yourself for a short period of time which would cause that exact error.

 

[dennis00]

It's only ran once a day. Wasn't the problem.

We had to move client to another server installing clean cPanel-server. Having to do the rebills manually (by going to the cronjob-link) was unacceptable.